Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi takes charge as new Assam Congress president
PM Modi takes stock of flood situation in Northeast, assures help to Assam, Sikkim and Manipur
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang and Manipur Governor Ajay Bhalla on the situation arising due to heavy rainfall and floods in the region. PM Modi has assured all help and support.
Rupee falls 16 paise to 85.55 against US dollar in early trade
Odisha Police prepares massive security arrangements for Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra in Puri
Finland to open new honorary consulate in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on June 9, ambassador to inaugurate
Adani group denies US media report linking it to US investigations over links to Iranian LPG
‘This is the terror of fascism’: MJ Akbar on Pak-sponsored terrorism
Former Union minister MJ Akbar said, “This is not an ordinary form of terror that we have witnessed with Pahalgam and so many other places. This is the terror of fascism. This is the terror of ethnic cleansing. You are in Europe, if Europe doesn’t remember fascism, which continent is going to remember fascism? You have generations here who remember the era of Hitler. This is the return of that era, and we are witnessing it with our own eyes. But unless we understand it ourselves and explain it to others, we will have failed those who gave their lives.”
Pakistan crop-sowing in crisis as dams run low, India tightens Chenab flow
Pakistan is staring at a bleak kharif (summer crops) sowing season with a major dip in live storage at its two key dams – Mangla on river Jhelum and Tarbela on Indus – and the “sudden decrease” in Chenab river inflows due to regulation of water flow by India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.
The situation may further aggravate this month during early kharif sowing and this is possibly what prompted Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif to raise concerns at a conference on glacier preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, last week to draw global attention to India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty.
We had a very successful presidency of G-20… While we host the G-20, Pakistan hosts the T-20. The top 20 terrorists of the world will be found being hosted by the Pakistani state government. It's their stated policy.
‘Congress should believe in our armed forces’: BJP’s Shahnawaz Hussain
BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain said, “The leaders of Congress, Opposition parties are continuously doing politics over Operation Sindoor. When whole country is congratulating PM, if they can’t do it, then they should at least appreciate the valour of the armed forces… The delegations are going across the world, but they are now questioning, it is being used by Pakistan, it is unfortunate. The Congress should believe in our armed forces.”
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